Einstein is quoted as saying, "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!" And how true that statement is where "Gun Free Zones" are concerned!

We have yet another mass shooting to occur in a "Gun Free Zone" at LAX where one person died and 4 others were injured by a mad man who had written a suicide note to his family prior to the incident. I see this morning that this individual has been charged with 1st degree murder, which is a death penalty offense. My guess is that he had no intention of being taken alive, ie, the suicide note.

But back to my real point here, the dangers of "Gun Free Zones"! How many more mass shootings/murders will it take before the dumbasses that insist on designating specific areas as "Gun Free Zones" see that they are promoting/enabling the very behavior they seek to prevent?

And I'll leave you with another Einstein quote, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Amen Brother!

It’s awful. As Dan wrote last night, a shooting occurred at the Grand Theater on Johnston Street in Lafayette, Louisiana. The gunman, a 58-year-old white man, opened fired about 20 minutes into the 7pm showing of Amy Schumer’s newest movie “Trainwreck.” Dan wrote that Gov. Bobby Jindal held a press conference saying, it was “an awful night for Lafayette, an awful night for Louisiana, and an awful life for the United States.”

Via AP:

The shooting happened about 20 minutes into a 7 p.m. showing of the movie "Trainwreck," The Louisiana Advertiser quoted theatergoer Katie Domingue as saying.

"We heard a loud pop we thought was a firecracker," Domingue told the newspaper. Domingue said she saw "an older white man" standing up and shooting down into the theater, but not in her direction.

Domingue told the newspaper she heard about six shots before she and her fiance ran to the nearest exit, leaving behind her shoes and purse.

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"What we can do now is we can pray," Jindal said. "We can hug these families. We can shower them with love, thoughts and prayers."

Jindal said he would meet with the families of the victims.

Yet, just like the other horrific shootings that occurred in Chattanooga last week at a U.S. Navy Reserve center and military recruitment center, the Grand Theater is a gun free zone, according to its code of conduct.

It’s just another example of how gun control policy leaves law-abiding citizenry vulnerable to attack, and this isn’t anything new. In 2014, the Crime Prevention Center's John Lott spoke with WMAL’s Larry O’Connor and Brian Wilson, where he said that all but two multiple shootings since the 1950s have occurred in areas where guns were prohibited:

I mean, I hope people would just reevaluate these gun-free zones, in general. I mean, at some point, I just wish the media once in a while would go and say -- when they go through all the other things, like where the person may have obtained a gun; whether they had mental illness. Often the easiest thing for a reporter to check is: were guns banned from the place where the attack occurred?

At some time, people have to recognize that, with just two exceptions, at least since 1950, all the multiple victim public shootings in the United States have taken place where guns are banned. And you see these individuals, they surely act as if they're trying their best to find areas where victims can't defend themselves.

You look at the Aurora movie theater shooting in 2012. There you had seven movie theaters within a twenty-minute drive of the killer's apartment; only one of them banned permit to conceal handguns with posted signs. The killer [James Holmes] didn't go to the movie theater that was closest to his home. He didn't go to the movie theater that advertised itself as having the largest auditoriums in the state of Colorado. He went to the single place where permit to conceal handgun holders weren't able to go and defend themselves.

Nevertheless, Everytown for Gun Safety took to Twitter, noting that Louisiana’s lax gun laws have led to it leading the nation in gun deaths. Of course, no links were provided, and going by the modus operandi of other gun control groups; whatever study Everytown used probably included suicides* to inflate the numbers. Moreover, Vermont is a liberal, constitutional carry state, where there is no permit process is required for concealed or open carry. Seventy to seventy-five percent of its residents own firearms. By Everytown’s logic, Vermont should be flowing with blood, not maple syrup.